From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:42:38 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days? In-Reply-To: References: <1506341239.18395.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> <20170925151827.GP28606@mcvoy.com> <646c7556-8300-d4ab-47fd-633352ea18e7@case.edu> <20170926145326.GX28606@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Yeah, but still doesn't answer the question, application-wise.  I'm >> gonna guess (without digging through the source) that it's a "dup2(0, >> 255)*" or something, to "save" a copy of stdin/out/err for some obscure >> reason. > > I already answered this. You didn't, actually, but I'll be generous and assume that you genuinely missed my point as opposed to being deliberately obtuse; I don't think I can make it any clearer, but I see that Larry "got it". -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."